THE LYING LESSON will begin previews Wednesday, February 20; officially open Wednesday, March 13; and play a limited engagement through Sunday, March 31 Off-Broadway at Atlantic's main stage Linda Gross Theater (336 West 20th Street).

In a remote seaside village in Maine, a legendary film star who may or may not be Bette Davis (Carol Kane) shows up to buy the home of an elderly couple. When she encounters a young local woman (Mickey Sumner) who appears never to have heard of her, "Ruth" stakes a claim on her distant past, and plays a relentless game of cat and mouse with her new "assistant."In this hilarious and unsettling comic thriller, Craig Lucas, celebrated author of Prelude to a Kiss, Reckless and The Light in the Piazza and twist and turn the audience around essential questions about memory, identity and truth-telling in The Lying Lesson.